Hello again people, Hypn0s welcome you all to chapter 1 of my story, The Maverick Chornicles.
now to those who have read the prologue, this first part of the story of my Lone Wanderer, Maverick will take entirely in the last DLC storyline, aliens and all the she-bang, I told you all this was something never done, at least i haven't read something similar.
now I will not spoil thing to you all, but this story will contain elements of both Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, mostly weapons and some characters on the last game, so those who have played both games will recognize some things I will add here, along with other parts of both Fallout, the first game and Fallout 2, mostly story and cameos.
Also I will put an extra spice to this story, we all wondered how a lone man or girl was able to basically destroy the worth of several armies, alone, without a gigantic robot to aid him, and that's just to those who played the game on normal, hard or very hard mode, many complained that making the Lone Wanderer super strong was easy, too easy and made the game so easy, in layman terms, it was like in New Vegas where you got Boone as a companion and then you gave him an anti-materiel rifle, with incendiary ammo, the game gets so easy.
In this story I will give my LW a reason to be super strong, if not more than the LW of the game.
so sit, read and enjoy, oh and review, reviews are the writters life-blood, without it we can't know what you, fellow readers and other authors think of the story.
so here I give you all chapter 1, I hope you all note how AU it gets from here.
CHAPTER 1: SMELL THE ASHES
He opened his eyes, and immediately regretted it.
Pain, unbearable pain shot all over his body, his muscles ached and contracted in pain, trying in a vain attempt to soothe the pain away, he curled in a ball to soothe the pain away, but it was useless, the pain was too much for him, he opened his mouth to scream, but no sound came out of his throat, only a soundless scream, a long soundless scream.
But that was fixed soon, his mouth began to generate saliva, saliva he was able to swallow, saliva that refreshed his dry throat, it took time, but his stunned throat began to emit sounds again, and soon his muscles stopped aching like hell.
Albeit they still hurt.
The unbearable pain soon was soothed by the adrenaline shot on his system by his own body, he recognized soon that he had adrenaline flooding his body; sometimes it was good to have been the son of a doctor, especially if you ended up being his assistant after the GOAT test.
Slowly standing up, and huffing along the way, Maverick was able to finally open his eyes, then blinked.
His first conscious sight of the world after being taken by a blue light was not once again the 200 year old carcass of the world, but rather four silver walls that were beyond advanced when it came to walls, so alien in design that he actually considered that he was back in the vault, that the guards had actually followed him and knocked him and put him on the brig, and all he had seen before had been a bad dream.
Sadly this wasn't the case, as what happened before came back to his mind, and another jolt of pain, this time located on his back reminded him that all was very real.
His ears caught a strange sound, like, someone talking, but not talking English or Spanish or something like that, it was an odd combination of high pitched clicks, screams and fusions of letters that were starting to annoy him.
When he turned around to glare at the source of the noise, he froze.
There he stared at something he believed was only of comic books.
Aliens, real live aliens.
They weren't exactly tall, hell Amata at the age of twelve was taller than them, the head was unnaturally big, like a pre-war light bulb, with green olive skin, a lot of wrinkles in its face, black eyes that were devoid of any sense of warm or feelings, slim mouths without lips or visible teeth, no visible ears for that matter as well, and their nose was just two cavities where the nose should be, slim arms and legs along with a very slim torso, but with a slight big belly, three long fingers and dressed in a white once piece jumpsuit with black boots was all of the alien physical features.
The alien held on its right hand what seemed to be a baton, unlike anything Maverick had ever seen before, sure he had used one of the batons the security force of Vault 101 uses to beat one of the guards to death, being more specific the one that was beating Amata and had killed Jonas.
But the one the alien had was different, with a silver polished design, the blunt end of the baton seemed like one of those bug zappers used in rural areas before the Great War to draw and electrocute mosquitoes or flies.
"AAAHHHH!" Maverick cried in pain when the baton impacted on his skin, sending electric discharges all over his body, making his muscles to seize up, oddly enough the feeling died fast, way too fast, and when the alien hit him again and again, he only felt a slight dull pain, and the slight blunt impact on his body, but not the electric discharge as before.
But he knew well that if he showed signs of getting used to the pain, the alien would hit him harder, and would not lower his guard, so he decided to fake the pain, this lasted for a minute until he saw the alien lower its guard, this was the opening he wanted, with speed he didn't knew he possessed he tackled the alien to the ground, hearing how the ribcage of the alien cracked upon impact, then with such savagism that clearly surprised him, he grabbed the right arm of the alien, the one with the baton, and ripped the arm cleanly of its socket, the alien screamed in pain as yellowish blood poured out of his socket, but Maverick didn't cared, tossing the arm away, he held the baton in hand, and then started to hit the alien in the face, hard.
The alien's massive head only lasted three blows before it caved in and spilled its brain on the ground, much to Maverick shock.
Seeing the dead alien, brutalized in five moves no less, Maverick began to scan around, just to see if he was not alone on this, after all this was not the first time he got onto a fight that had him outnumbered or outgunned.
Fortunately he wasn't on both cases, this time.
He saw that he was on some sort of torture room or something like that, if the blood on the walls, human blood was of any indication, that and the very sharp devices places around a chair that were surely not for the comfort of a person seating in it.
Tossing the alien baton, Maverick checked himself to see if something was missing, even if a finger, he didn't want to find out he was missing his thumbs or his ears were now on preservation jars or his kidney was being used to power up something on this crazy ship.
Fortunately he was complete, he wasn't missing any body parts, and his Pip-boy was still attached to his left hand, what he was missing however were his clothes.
"…This these bastards just stripped me naked and probed me?" he asked out loud, seeing no answer to his question, he simply settled on stepping on the torso of the dead alien and break any remaining ribs that might not have been broken before.
Hearing the crunch of bones was satisfying enough, and he knew that if there was one alien, there were more, and oh he was going to make them regret dragging him and experimenting with him, because he knows that these crazy bastards did experimented with him, he could feel it, his strength, his current one…it was not normal, even with adrenaline flooding his system.
Seeing an exit of the room, Maverick decided he had stood enough around, exiting the room, he was surprised to see that the corridors were pretty much clean, pristine, all metallic and futuristic, and he was also looking if there was some sort of camera around, a surveillance camera, there was none.
Seeing the road free, Maverick made a dash to the metallic door, once there he pressed the most obvious sign of an opening button at the side of the door and this one opened, and not sparing a glance behind, kept advancing.
And soon regret it when a cold chill hit him.
Sarah held her gun near her chest, of all the things that had to happen to her, this was surely the last thing she expected, kidnapped yes, by aliens not so much.
Sarah Lyons, only Sentinel of the Brotherhood of Steel and leader of Lyons Pride groaned in annoyance as another one of the Super Mutants small cousins spotted her, raising its baton and charging at her, not the greatest idea ever, considering the size of their heads.
Raising her weapon, Sarah pulled the trigger and smirked as her newly acquired Laser RCW tore the alien apart, she had to hand it to the small freaks, this was a weapon Sarah had only heard in passing, a small, compact, nicer to the eyes, not as nice on the receiving end laser Gatling, resembling a Tommy Machinegun, the RCW is all the sense of the word, a laser machinegun, sixty laser beams of pure fun to use.
This particular RCW, Sarah noted, was different than others, while she had heard the gun had wooden sections, like a Tommy Gun, this one instead had metal parts replacing those wooden parts, in a silver polish, also the beams were blue, instead of red, meaning that the beams hit harder than the usual RCW.
The 'Tommy Gun' as it was written on the right side of the barrel with clack, lived to the name of its former cousin, the spitting lead Tommy Machinegun, and while it still used Electron Charge packs, this one used them better, instead of 60 shots per EC pack, her gun could shot 80 per EC pack.
But while she had got a nice gun that no other BOS member had, she had lost her armor, her beautiful, long battle hardened armor, the damn aliens had stripped her, leaving her only in her panties and her shirt, gladly she had found shortly after her escape a dead enclave officer, female of course, and she had donned her clothes, more for modesty that for anything else, she could be fighting naked for all she cared, but she knew she would find more people who had been kidnapped, and truth to be told, she needed a place where to store all her new shiny alien loot.
She knew they needed it more than ever.
She was still unable to believe the Enclave still lived, well they did, and attacked in such a way that no one was prepared, she knew most towns fell while defending themselves against the Enclave, small towns anyway, Andale, Big Town, Grayditch, Arefu, several Raider camps, several scavenger camps, the spot between the Jefferson Memorial and Rivet City was a literal warzone, most BOS soldiers that were in DC had to be relocated around Rivet City, GNR station had only a handful of soldiers around, and most of the area was mined, to thin the freaks if they decided to attack, she doubted a Behemoth could safely trek the minefield around GNR perimeter without losing one leg.
She still remembers the day the Enclave attacked, half a year ago, six months to be exact, no one knew why in fact, but they attacked, they took over the Jefferson Memorial, which her father told her was once a place to create a massive water purifier to cleanse the waters of the Tidal Basin and in time, the waters of the Potomac itself.
The battle for the useless water purifier was little compared for the battle of their lives, most caravans that sustained several towns had to stop wandering because the Enclave soldiers would attack anyone on sight, most towns had to depend on hunting their food of the local fauna, or what was left anyway, radscorpion and giant ant meat was the only way to feed oneself, Megaton had it somewhat well in that regard, they were located near a giant ant nest, so they had plenty of meat to take off, and considering the entire town massacred the raiders inside the school, which is built under the giant ant nest, they had stripped the school of everything remotely usable, which was everything, including batteries, generators, weapons and ammo of the dead raiders, their armors used to cover some holes around the walls, etc.
Megaton had it well, all things considering that Rivet City was basically a massive target for the Enclave Vertibirs, on a high note however, the citizens of Rivet City had a new hobby, besides dodging bullets that is, shooting down Vertibirds down from the sky with Rocket Launchers.
As she made her way out of the cell block, a hissing sound made her turn around, eyes widening, she ducked and rolled out of the way when what seemed the version of an alien ghoul came flying towards her, then slamming to a wall, hard, she heard several bones breaking upon impact, but that seemed to not deter the alien like ghoul, upon further inspection, she found, much to her horror that it was not like a ghoul, it was a freaking human/alien hybrid.
While their hands and skin was of the alien shade and form, and their feet had only four toes, the rest was basically human, with a rather large belly, a toned torso, long arms and legs, a alien like head with human features, and pitch black sclera with white pupils, this abomination was something Sarah would remember for a long time, and even more in the way it died.
She rose her gun to finish the abomination when this one stood up and charged, only then she realized that it wasn't charging at her, but rather back at the open door, when she looked she saw, much to her shock, a man in his underwear, just like she was before, with long blasted back hair in black and brown eyes with Latin features, emerging for what seemed a very harsh cold room.
The abomination swung an arm and tried to hit the man, but much to her shock, the man moved away of the trajectory of the lunge with surprising dexterity and grabbing the arm with both of his hands, flipped the abomination to the ground, slamming it hard to the ground, there he slammed his right feet on the neck of the abomination, hearing the crack of the windpipe when his feet made contact, then, much to her surprise, while still holding the arm, ripped it of its socket, cleanly, making the abomination cry in pain, or as much pain it could scream considering he had broke its windpipe, then once again he slammed his feet on the neck of the beast, this time Sarah knew he broke the whole neck easily by stomping on it, and got clearly surprised when she saw that his stomp had left a clear imprint on the metal ground with such an ease.
When the man turned around, Sarah blinked in surprise, he was just a boy, barely nineteen, twenty years old, his shirt was smeared with the blood of those abominations, a mixture of human red blood with some alien yellow-ish like blood.
The door closing was what made Sarah snap her attention once again, realizing that the door he had emerged had just closed, and now he was staring at her.
"…uh…hi?" he offered, making her raise an eyebrow, slowly standing up, gun aimed at him, just for precaution, Sarah noted that he had also something she hadn't noticed before, a Pip-Boy.
"…Where did you got that Pip-boy?" she asked, weapon aimed at him, the boy, to her believe, was not concerned by her gun, hell he didn't seemed to even mind that he had ripped the arm of a monster in all the sense of the word, he just rose an eyebrow at her.
"My Pip-boy? I got it when I reached 10 years, like all kids on…my vault" he said the last part on a whisper, Sarah didn't pay attention to that, just the fact he indeed came out of a vault, question was, which one.
"Which vault, I know for a fact that Vault 87 is a very fancy coffin, Vault 92 likewise, vault 106 is a junkie's heaven and 108 is the only place I know so far that we can actually clone people, or organs for that matter, that only leave Vault 112 and 101, and a scout of my unit told me before I was captured by the aliens that 112 is some sort of freaky sleeping project, that just leaves…" she said as she rose her gun at him, making him narrow his eyes at her, "101…so answer…are you from Vault 101?"
His nod was all she needed to pull the trigger, but much to her shock, the burst she fired to him hit nothing but air, when she turned to her right, she just could only stare in mute shock as he reached for her gun, disarmed her of it, and slammed his palm on her stomach, sending her flying away towards a wall, unlike the abomination, she was thankful she didn't broke several bones, but the impact took the air out of her.
As she slowly stood up, her first sight was the boy tossing the gun away, like if it was nothing, then assuming a boxing stance, beckoned her to come at him.
Sarah snarled as she charged at him, throwing a right hook she was surprised how easily he ducked it, and how painful his jab to her stomach really was, gasping for air and stumbling backwards, Sarah could see how this boy…was looking curiously at his own fist?
Spitting some saliva mixed with blood out, Sarah charged the now distracted kid; only to gape when he reacted too fast for any other human or Vault dweller for her liking grabbed her by the arm, and flipped her by the shoulder, slamming her hard on the metal ground, realizing he was about to do the same he did to the abomination, Sarah braced herself for her gruesome death.
But it never came, instead, Sarah could only stare how the guy let her arm go, and then sigh at her, "Okay woman, what was the big idea?" he asked with a scowl as he let her stand up, Sarah immediately began to scan her surroundings, trying to find a way to gain the upper hand, but all she saw was that she was royally screwed if she made a wrong move.
Licking her lips in anticipation, Sarah wondered how she should play things, it was there she realized something, besides the fact she got her ass owned by a kid ten years younger than her.
"They kidnapped you too?" his deadpan expression was all the answer she needed, groaning up, she was able to stand up, but yet she kept herself wary, after all he was from vault 101.
But if he was kidnapped even before the Enclave convinced the Vault Dwellers…
She smiled on her head, he could be a potential ally, could be of course, she shot him without any reason besides where he came from, that was, in the wasteland courtesy, and invitation to get yourself killed, she had to smooth things, at least explain herself.
"Okay…we started with the wrong foot…" the boy raised an eyebrow at her, like saying 'no shit' she had to held a groan at bay, he was willing to listen but she had to explain herself quickly or risk suffering the same fate as the abomination.
"But I have reasons okay, first of all…when you left your vault?" she asked, there he could see the boy actually giving it a thought, and then he looked at his pip-boy, and paled.
"It can't be…my pip-boy says…I escaped six months ago…but that's impossible…I remember it like if it was yesterday" he said, there she understood him, she actually believed the same, but the fact she counted the days said otherwise, she had been kidnapped a month ago, she had counted the days, still the memory of her last day on the Capital Wasteland, on a recon mission was still too alive on her head.
"Yeah I know, trust me I was kidnapped a month ago, yet I remember my last day down there like if it was just mere hours ago" she said, "First of all names okay, my name's Sarah, Sarah Lyons, you?" she said as she extended her hand, she needed to show him she was willing to talk things out, it seemed to work at least for him.
"Maverick…no last name" he said as he reached for her hand and clasped it, there she noted how smooth it was, how greatly smooth it was, like silk, if such material existed anyways, she had only read about it on some pre-war book novels, soft, inviting, the best to have around you, at least for those with the money to own it.
"Okay…Maverick, as I was saying, I attacked you because…let's say that vault residents of Vault 101 have pissed a lot of people, and allied themselves with the wrong sort" she began, shaking his hand and then releasing it, "Six months is a lot of time to shit to happen Maverick" she said as she walked and reached for her Tommy Gun on the ground, then checking the gun, she saw that beyond the scraps for being tossed around, the gun was still in the pristine state she had found it.
"About…six months…no, make it five months and 10 days ago, a pre-war faction know only as the Enclave, a shadow organization of the former USA government struck, many believed that the Enclave was a myth, even more considering they got their ass handed by a tribal in their own turf no less than sixty or seventy years ago, I truly don't know, never was good with large dates" she said as she held her gun close to her, she was still in hostile territory.
"Anyway, they hit, and hit us hard" she said, "How hard" was all Maverick asked to her, there she stared at him for a good ten seconds, "Very hard Maverick, hard enough to wake every single person of their post-apocalyptic dream, hard enough to raise alarms, hard enough to make people realize how strong they truly were" Sarah said with a strangely haunted look.
"This uniform I'm wearing is of one of them, I had to loot it out of a corpse of an Enclave officer who was just two cells away from mine when I made my escape, while I know my brothers and sisters in the citadel will hit me if they see me with this, I have to admit, it is oddly comfy" she confessed, making Maverick raise an eyebrow, "I know I'm confusing you Maverick, but believe me that right now, while you took your six month nap here, a war has been being waged down as we speak, one for survival" Sarah stated.
"I have to return down there, I need to help in the fight…heh, the good fight as Three Dog would say, and I need your help" she said as she walked towards him, this time standing face to face, only three steps separating them of each other.
"Vault 101 residents are the spear head of the Enclave army, I don't know what it was done to you guys down in those vaults, but outside, you are basically killing machines, I have seen a vault dweller armed with just a 10mm handgun decimate a whole group of mercs, and still have rounds in the clip to make himself a necklace" she said, "All in a blink of an eye, with dead aim, all headshots"
"Must be the VATS function" Maverick muttered, "VATS, what the hell is that?" she asked.
"You think the Pip-boy is a simple wrist computer? No, this thing is attacked to our nerves, it haywires them, we can basically freeze time on our heads, calculate possibilities, odds, and take them, all in less than a second, that's VATS, a vault dweller way to defend themselves" Maverick stated, making Sarah raise an eyebrow, "Well, one mystery solved I guess" she muttered as she motioned him to follow her.
He did follow her, mainly because the suit surely accentuated her butt…
"Eyes on my back or my head boy" she warned, making him raise an eyebrow, damn she is good.
Apparently she guided him back to the cell block, only that this one was littered with alien corpses, not that his way to freedom was as clean as hers, she had a gun, he only had his hands, and those damn hybrids surely bleed a lot, and have no sense of preservation whatsoever.
Finally they reached what seemed to be a room, the wardens room or something like that, there he found a pile of ashes, still smoking and a dozen of containers of alien origin, one of them was open however.
"If we are going to escape, you better suit for the task, I'm not going to be helped by someone on his underwear, or without weapons" she said, "You just say that because I beat your ass barehanded" he said back, "Ha-ha, so funny I forgot to laugh, really, I would appreciate you had a gun, it will make things infinitely easier here…you do know how to use a gun…right?"
"Of course I do, I owned a BB Gun" he shot aback with indignation, and "Killed lot of radroaches by the way" he added.
"Uh, the mighty radroach hunter, fear his deadly BB Gun" she said with all the sarcasm she could possibly add, "Oh fuck you Lyons, try to blow their antennas with a BB Gun, then we'll see who is a crack shot, and to add I did it without VATS" he said as he opened one of the containers, then kneeling and peering its contents.
"Whoa, you kiss your mom with that mouth?"
"My mom is dead" Maverick stated, making Sarah shut up instantly, "Oh…sorry Maverick…I didn't mean to…"
"Don't sweat it Sarah…I never met her anyway, she died after the labor" Maverick stated, making her sigh, "In any case it was wrong, I know better, I also lost my mom as well" she said as she turned around, "I'll make guard Maverick, you find whatever it helps you inside the containers, and if you happen to find EC packs, could you hand it to me, my gun uses those for ammo"
"Sure, just shoot anything that doesn't looks human"
"If it was that hard" Sarah said as she looked behind her, eyes focused on his butt, "Turnaround I fair play…god what an ass" she thought as she focused her sight then on the front, when all this nightmare was done, she could indulge herself in some eye candy, but for now she had to focus.
Fifteen minutes later…
"Good lord, what's taking so long back there, looking for clean underwear?" Sarah called back, "Nah, just checking the other boxes, the first one I opened had a sweet surprise inside" Maverick called back, Sarah, curious about what he meant, turned around, only to blink when she saw him encased in a white combat armor, a model she had never seen before, not only that, on the ground there was neat line up of guns, most of them normal guns, assault rifles, hunting rifles, two varmint rifles, three .32 pistols, a pair of 10mm handguns and another pair of 9mm handguns, also he was able to pull out a freaking Minigun, but sadly most of the guns were in bad to no shape to use.
Also she saw several clips of those mentioned guns, ammo she was sure would come in handy in time, oddly enough she saw a box full of 12 gauge shotgun shells, she hasn't seen a shotgun around, that was until he really stood up, and she could see a hunting shotgun, a pump action shotgun laying near his feet, she hasn't see it because his body had covered it while kneeling, also she noticed he had on his hand what seemed a futuristic looking revolver, it intrigued her seeing that kind of gun in his hands, of course intrigue turned into disbelieve when he loaded the gun with 5.56mm rounds.
"The hell, did you just loaded that with an assault rifle rounds?" he simply nodded, "Odd, don't ya think, I tried to use 10mm and 9mm rounds, but the gun won't accept them" Maverick stated.
"Odd" she said as she rubbed her chin, "It remind me of That Gun my dad once spoke" that name seemed to make Maverick head perk up, "That Gun…that's a good name, That Gun!"
"…You're naming a futuristic looking revolver…That Gun?" he didn't seemed to mind, and much to her shock, pulled another That Gun and holstered them both on identical holsters attached to his white armor, then strapped this hunting shotgun on his back, and to add he pulled two bags out as well, and handed one to Sarah, when she opened it she found herself with the nice surprise of seeing 20 EC packs inside, along with some stimpaks.
"I filled your bag with EC packs and some stimulants, if we get hurt of course, I got mine filled with ammo and I packed my stimpaks on the bags of the armor, so we are set to go" he said as he got ready to leave the room.
"Not yet" was Sarah response, "Before we leave, I want to know…I heard it only on rumors of course, some of those Vault 101 assholes, speaking in hushed whispers about two of their own leaving the vault even before the war began, they spoke of those two if like they were demons or something, they were scared" she said as she stared long and hard at Maverick.
"Now I know you are one of those two, the question is…why you left Vault 101?" she asked simply, his answer of course was simple as well, and it satisfied her greatly, proving her once and for all that he wasn't like them.
"Simple" he began, turning to face her and staring her in the eyes, "I left Vault 101, looking for my dad" he said, suddenly thinking of something, then he drew one of those That Gun out, flipping it, much to Sarah shock with expertise, then presenting it to her, "Just in case" he said with a grin, Sarah just snorted, but grabbed the gun nonetheless, he was after all, the only person, in this alien infested hell, that she could trust.
Even if he was from Vault 101.
"We need a map" Sarah muttered to Maverick, they have been walking around the halls of the place for over half and hour, they didn't exactly know if they were on a spaceship or a space station, after all aliens do come in those two things.
Soon the duo reached a door, this one opening upon reaching it, there Maverick and Sarah froze at the sight, Maverick nearly going eye wide at the revolting sight.
"…Good merciful God"
Both of them were staring at a long hall, a hall that held humans, dead, butchered, eviscerated, mauled, burned, melted, boiled, beheaded, gutted apart, smeared on the ground, and overall brutalized corpses of humans inside cell rooms.
Maverick had to hold his own vile of coming out of his mouth at the sight of cells filled with corpses desecrated in such ways, Sarah remained stony and overall cold, barely glancing at the pile of corpses in the cells, and the fact the smell of rotten flesh was isolated by the cells.
To Maverick, it was like walking on a hall on Hell itself, if the descriptions of so many writers, both religious and non-religious were truth, there was no smell of brimstone or the eternal screams of the souls of the dammed as background, yet…
Yet as he walked, he could hear the screams of all those who died in the hands of the aliens, screams of indignation, screams of pain, screams for revenge, in his mind, he could heard them all, claiming for revenge, claiming for retribution, claiming, claiming…
Soon the duo finally reached a door, this one opening once they were close, Maverick wasted no time in exiting the halls, Sarah not far behind, when she approached him once the doors closed behind them, she could only hear him gasp, trying to get some air, truth to be told, she couldn't blame him, she nearly lost it as well, raiders and Super Mutants were not…so vicious, at least the raiders had the decency to burn the butchered ones, and Super Mutants, they ate it.
But what she saw in that hall, it really shook her, only her years in combat and seeing her brothers and sisters dying in horrible ways had taken away the feeling of revulsion and rage, leaving her a perfect fighting machine, problem was that she is human, and no matter how hard she tries to drown it, the sight of men, women and children corpses, held in piles, nearly unrecognizable made her rage, made her want kill every single alien on sight.
"How…how can…a living being…does that?" Maverick wondered out loud, "Truth to be told Maverick, I don't know, our world is kinda mess up, down there, is all about survival, kill or be killed, survival of the fittest, or the one with the biggest gun and the toughest armor, the person with the gun, regardless of being good or evil does the rules" Sarah stated, "Is a sad thing you know, but that's our world, our sad, little world" she muttered as she eyed Maverick, he slowly regained his breathing and colors, now she really believed he was different from any other Vault 101 dweller, he for once, had morals.
"Are you okay Maverick?" she asked, "Yes…just give me a minute Sarah" he said, trying to regain his bearing, she could sympathize with him, she had also lost that shed of innocence when she lay eyes on the horrors of the post-apocalyptic world, of course she was ten and her dad was a Paladin at that time, so she had someone familiar who could explain to her why people killed people, why others couldn't just get along.
Soon she saw Maverick finally stand outright, but looking grim and serious, "Sarah" he began, catching her attention, "Yes Maverick?"
"…We are going to kill them all for this" he said, making her smirk, she had been waiting for that statement, "Of course we will, but first we need to do some recon, first rule of battles in the wasteland Maverick, scan, then shoot to kill everything that is hostile" she stated, "…the wasteland is crazy" he muttered as he focused his sights on a room to his right, "Yeah, but that's our world"
"Indeed, Sarah, look at that room" he said as he pointed the room he was watching, through a window both humans could see two aliens working on…something, not even noticing them.
They also noted they had weapons, alien weapons, unconsciously Sarah liked her lips.
"You're thinking what I'm thinking?" Maverick stated as he pulled his shotgun out, "Yes" Sarah hissed, hefting her Tommy Gun, slowly both humans approached the room, seeing the door closed, looking at each other, the nodded and opened the mechanical door, that drew the attention of the aliens, but just to one get its head blow of its neck by a shotgun and the other have its torso riled with cauterized holes, courtesy of a laser machinegun.
With both aliens dead, Maverick and Sarah were free to inspect the room, and loot the containers and the bodies of the aliens with impunity; well at least Sarah at first, Maverick was hesitant to do that, until Sarah pointed out the second rule on the wasteland.
"You keep what you kill"
Oddly it reminded of a movie he saw when he was twelve about a guy who was basically a bald buzz saw that could kill and army with two knifes, and in the end killed the emperor of an army, such becoming the ruler of such empire because their rule was 'you keep what you kill'
So he found himself doing the same as Sarah, looting corpses for anything that could help them.
"Hey Sarah" Maverick called, catching the attention of the woman who was currently checking some a pair of containers.
"What do you make of these?" he said as he held a pair of rifles, or that seemed at least to Sarah, the chromed finish on the entire weapon made it odd, not only that, it seemed like mixture of an assault rifle in the body, with the length body of a sniper rifle, and the muzzle end of a very old shotgun, the trigger was perhaps the biggest thing of it all, no seriously, the trigger was as big as her hand.
"Seems…like a shotgun" she stated with some apprehension.
"Shotguns eh?" he said as he turned around, lowered the rifle he held on his right hand, and fired it, Sarah just stared as a solid blue ball of energy, or plasma sailed out of the muzzle end, sailing the room and impacting on a wall, leaving a melted portion of the wall upon impact.
"Okay so it's a rifle" she said as she grabbed the one Maverick had on his left hand, examining the weapon, she could already see Rotchchild having mini-gasm at the sight of such advanced weapon.
"How many rounds this thing can fire? Forget that what kind of ammo uses?" she wondered.
"You know that my Pip-boy haywires my senses and makes vault dwellers defend themselves better, right?" she nodded at his question, "Well, it does more than that, it basically gives us a HUD vision"
"Heads Up Display…nice" she said, "Yeah, is useful too, kinda bothersome because we can't turn it off, it displays the basic mostly, health, sometimes it displays parts of the body that are crippled or broken, a Radiation display, showing levels of radiation and how it raises, and if we have weapons it shows the ammo count…I don't know how it does the last" Maverick stated, making her raise an eyebrow.
"When we hold a gun it show us in the HUD the amount of rounds in the clip and how much we have in reserve…still I wonder how the hell they do that" he mumbled, "Okay, so every gun you hold, you will know how much rounds you have left, freaky but useful, now I want to know how many rounds this one has" she said, pointing at the alien rifle.
"A hundred" that answer of Maverick had her stupefied, "A hundred rounds? Damn" she mussed, slightly glancing at the weapon, then grinding, this rifle was heavily accurate, the energy rounds the rifle fired didn't met air resistance, and had surplus of rounds, now for the ammo.
"Oh, almost forgot" he stated as he kneeled on one of the alien corpses, and pulled out of their pockets something that resembled a AA battery, but in a bright glowing blue.
"I think this is the ammo for their guns" he said as he handed a pair to Sarah, the woman smiled as she was handed the 'ammo' and pocketed it, then she pouted when she saw him strap the other alien rifle on his back, alongside the shotgun, also he took one of the alien looking handguns, also chrome polish end, it was odd for her to see that kind of weapon, especially since she had been used to see the more human looking laser handguns and plasma guns, most of those always had exposed wires, this one didn't.
"20 rounds…good enough" he said as he held the gun on his hand, taking four of those alien ammo and pocketing it on one of the pouches of the armor.
"It seems this is some sort of checkpoint or something" Sarah commented, looking at the console in front of her, "Maybe…maybe this will have a map of the area, or the whole ship, space station, whatever the hell we are" Maverick muttered, holstering the alien handgun and looking form some sort of port or something, "Aha, found you" he said as he reached for his Pip-boy and pulled a cable out of the machine, then inserted it on the console in front of them.
"IF I'm right, I might be able to download the layout of this place, that way it will be easier for us to navigate" he stated as his Pip-boy automatically began to work.
After a minute, the Pip-boy beeped, signaling to Maverick that it had finalized its download, after separating the cable of the console, Maverick began to flip around his Pip-boy options, until he found the one he wanted.
"Okay Sarah, I got the map" he began, signaling her the options displayed, there, to everyone to see, she could see a map displayed in the LDC screen, along with a dot that signaled the location of Maverick.
"Okay, it seems that we have four long halls that are connected to this room" Maverick began, "We already crossed one" Sarah stated neutrally, but Maverick scowled at that.
"The other two halls have no other connections whatsoever, dead ends" Maverick stated, "So, we only have just one only road, excellent" Sarah muttered, not liking the idea so much.
"I hope is not like the other one" Maverick muttered, Sarah in all honesty, hoped the same.
"Well, there is only way to find out" Sarah muttered as she began to walk towards the door Maverick's Pip-boy showed, so said boy following her, soon both were standing shoulder to shoulder in front of the closed mechanical door.
"You're ready Maverick?" she asked, "…Yeah" he said as he pulled That Gun out, and narrowed his eyes, Sarah smirked, with a nod of Maverick, Sarah opened the mechanical doors, what she saw on the other side made her gasp in utter fear.
There, on the other end, about twenty meters away, was a Super Mutant, she could tell any Super Mutant of others, this one was of course an Overlord class, the bigger frame and ugliest face, not as much as a Behemoth Super Mutant face, or even yet, the so mythical Gargantuan Super Mutant, twice the size of a behemoth, and twice as stupid and strong.
But what had her in fear was not the sight of the Overlord, with the weapons she had and the support of the super freaky strong Maverick, they could take care of the Overlord with ease, after all it bleeds, and all that can bleed, can die.
What had her on the edge was what the Overlord had on his head and on his right hand, on his head he had some sort of device, like a high tech helmet, but attached straight to his skull, like the one most Deathclaws employed by the Enclave as weapons had on their heads, just this one, like the alien weapons, had a chrome polished finish, and looked more stylish, or as stylish it can be with something inserted on your cranium.
The other thing, the thing on his hand was that had her on the edge, and so Maverick, it was no weapon, it was a little girl, a simple, little girl with blonde hair, held by her jacket by the meaty hand of the Overlord.
"H-h-help" the little girl gasped out, barely audible to Sarah, but it had an impact for Maverick.
With a roar that startled Sarah, Maverick began to advance at the Overlord, aiming That Gun at the Overlord and firing it.
At first, to Sarah it seemed his aim was terrible, until she saw where he was shooting, each shot nailed perfectly the four visible knuckles and the wrist of the Overlord with dead on accuracy, something she doubted even Vault dwellers using VAST would be able to accomplish.
The five shots had the desired effect, causing the Overlord to release the little girl who fell on the ground, groaning in pain, but relieved to be free of the beast.
With that accomplished, Maverick tossed That Gun aside, and rushed at top speed at the Overlord, not even bothering to draw other of his weapons, the overlord saw this as a plain sign of defiance and advanced as well, not as fast as Maverick, but Sarah knew that Overlords were know for two things, how tough they were to kill, and the sponge for bullets they were, and where heavy enough to withstand a charge of a Deathclaw at full throttle.
But this didn't seem the case, this time, Maverick and the Overlord collided nearly in the middle of the hall, much to Sarah shock, Maverick was able to tackle down the Overlord with such brutality and strength that she winced when she heard several bones of the Overlord crack like nothing.
Now on the ground, Maverick let his fist sail to the beast face, twice, each blow nearly caved the Overlord's face in, but when Maverick was about to deliver the third blow the Overlord left hand reached for Maverick's head, grabbing it and tossing him to a wall like a ragdoll, this however didn't seemed to stop Maverick at all.
Releasing Maverick was the greatest error the Overlord made ever, as it slowly stood up, Maverick was already standing up and good to go, letting his right feet sail, he delivered a powerful kick to the Overlord's back, making the beast stagger on its feet, then while behind it, let several hooks to the sides and kidneys of the Overlord, each blow, to Sarah's ears was like someone was using a Power Fist to beat the shit out of a car, and bend steel, that hard.
The Overlord, still in pain and still giving its back to Maverick was unable to counter the enhanced human when this one grabbed him by the waist and flipped him down, to Sarah who was watching, Maverick had executed a perfect German suplex, then without leaving the overlord off his grab, Maverick repeated the suplex, Sarah had to hand it to the Overlord, it was taking such a beating and was still alive, she knew most Super Mutants wouldn't be able to take such punishment.
As the Overlord remained on the ground, soundly defeated, Maverick wasn't done with it, grabbing its left arm, he poised his feet over the Overlord's shoulder, and pulled.
"He won't" Sarah thought with some apprehension, there was no way that Maverick, with all his inhuman strength would be able to rip the Overlord's arm cleanly.
That became horror as she saw the Overlord's sneering face turn into pain as the arm began to be rip off, skin detaching off and exposing overstressed muscles that were trying to keep the arm attached, then the sound of something being ripped off, like ripping someone's clothes, but with a lot of blood.
The Overlord screamed in pain and turned to its back, only to 'uff' when Maverick placed his foot on his chest, breaking any remaining ribs of its chest, lifted the severed arm, and started to use it as a club against the Overlord's face.
Both girls could only see in abject horror and morbid fascination as Maverick brutalized the Overlord with its own severed arm, lasting for over a minute slamming the limb on the head of the Overlord with inhuman strength, all while cursing the beast for manhandling the little girl and hurting her.
The beating, thankfully for Sarah, ended when the last blow finally caved in the face of the Overlord, making the metallic cover or helmet on its head to pop open, exposing its brain and killing the Overlord by the heavy head trauma Maverick had proportioned to the beast, it also helped that the brain was exposed to the elements.
With the beast dead, Maverick tossed the arm away, and then slowly took several steps back, resting his back on the metallic walls of the hall and then slowly sliding to the ground, letting long intakes of breath fill his lungs and closing his eyes.
Sarah slowly made her way to Maverick, surveying the hall portion he and the Overlord had fought, the portion had blood smeared on the walls because of Maverick mad swings at the Overlord's face with its own severed arm, and of course the Overlord's own blood pooling on the ground, along with any liquids contained in its brain.
Kneeling and picking That Gun, Sarah slowly made her way to Maverick and stood in front of him, she didn't noted how the little girl slowly stood up as well, wincing somewhat and approaching Maverick who was pale as a sheet of paper.
"I…gotta hand it to ya Maverick, no one has ever taken an Overlord barehanded and actually kill it" she said as she kneeled in front of Maverick, this one looking at her with a haunted expression.
"…Sarah…what…what these aliens did to me?" he wondered, "I don't know Maverick, I really don't know" she confessed as she took his hand and placed That Gun on his hand.
"But they are going to regret ever doing it to ya" she stated as she turned and then focused her sights on the little girl Maverick had saved, the girl was spooked, of that was certain, but of her ordeal or Maverick she wasn't sure.
Suddenly the little girl lunged herself at Maverick, and began to weep.
Maverick didn't know what to do at first, then slowly, ever slowly he hugged the girl back, and began to cry as well.
Sara could only glance on the sidelines as the stress of this day finally took its toll on Maverick, he finally broke and wept, she let him cry as long as he wanted, she let him cry for his lost innocence and whatever twisted experiment the aliens did to him, she let him cry alongside the little girl, she let them cry.
She let them cry because she could not longer cry; she let them cry for her.
So there you have it, Chapter 1 of my story.
to those who might have noted, yes I played the beta of gears of war 3, yes i played as the locust horde and yes i did the last kill as a locust by executing my enemy, ripping his arm off and hitting it with his same arm, as long as the Y button apeared and allowed me to, allw hile benting my rage for the suckass team i was provided before and i had to salvage because they didn't understand the dammed two cannon sawed-off shotgun is overpowered and can blast three oponents point-blank.
and yes, I enjoyed doing that over and over again.
without anything else to say, I leave you all to read an enjoy this chapter, till a next time, Hypn0s signs off, peace.